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Access to digital finance : equity crowdfunding across countries and platforms

Estrin, Saul; Khavul, Susanna; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2023

Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for …

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Entrepreneurship selection and performance

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, … - 2004

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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Business survival and success of young small business owners

Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...

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Schooling, capital constraints and entrepreneurial performance

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2005

We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...

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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

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The impact of risk aversion, role models, and the regional milieu on the transition from unemployment to self-employment : empirical evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

'entrepreneurial milieu' affect the decision to start a new business out of unemployment? The econometric study is based on data from a … takes care of the regional stratification of the data, and the results of the nonlinear models are carefully interpreted and …

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Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.

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Personal and regional determinants of entrepreneurial activities : empirical evidence from the REM Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf G. - 2002

Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM). We use a version of the probit model that takes care of the regional stratification of the data, and …This paper contributes to empirical research in entrepreneurship by focusing on the link between two stylized facts …. regional variables do matter for the decision to start a new business ceteris paribus. Our econometric study is based on data …

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Taking a second chance : entrepreneurial restarters in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

said to be much more difficult here than in other countries. This paper uses data from a large recent survey in ten German …

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What a difference a y makes : female and male nascent entrepreneurs in Germany

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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